A 53-year-old Nigerian advocate cum Prince, Olanrewaju Bolaji Otukoya, has bagged a 5-year bastille appellation in the U.K over his captivation in a £1.8m fraud.
The Nigerian advocate who is the son of King J.B. Otukoya, Fiwagbade I, the Oligun of Ilugun, Ogun State, headed the
Luton-based assemblage that committed £1.8m artifice by intercepting cheques in the column that were advised for bounded businesses.
He bootless to acknowledgment his badge bond in July 2014 and absconded to Nigeria.
It was aggregate that the captive fled to Nigeria afterward he skipped bail, was bedeviled at the Old Bailey, on Friday, October 12, afterward an operation led by the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU).
Otukoya who has several antecedent aesthetics for fraud was traced and extradited back to the UK afterward an approval by a Nigerian cloister in April 2018.
The Nigerian advocate who pleaded accusable to cabal to bamboozle users of Royal Mail Postal Services recruited two added associates of the gang,
Moshin Abbas and Anjam Shah who abused their positions as workers at a Royal Mail allocation appointment by burglary column absolute cheques destined for bounded companies.
The assemblage intercepted cheques, account over £1.8 actor in total, which was again paid into business coffer accounts that were set up and controlled by Otukoya, application agnate names as the ambition company.
Abbas and Shah were bedeviled in 2016 to four years and 5 year and three months imprisonment respectively.
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